WTF

This report tells us that on an average a Greek smokes 3000 cigarettes per year. This is equivalent to smoking a little more than 8 cigarettes per day per person! If one excludes the children up to the age of 12 (assuming a minuscule number of child smokers) in a nation of an average life [...]

Oil@125 – Some facts

India is the 10th largest oil importing nation in the world (oil imports are close to 70% of its crude oil requirements). If the average price of crude oil for FY09 is $105 / bbl, then, it will result in the FY09 trade deficit coming in at US$115bn. According to Citibank,
US$1/bbl increase in oil prices [...]

Mumbai among world’s cheapest

I do not know what quality of research was this, but it feels so insulting to hear that Mumbai is among the cheapest cities of the world. Insulting because we know how much it hurts when we loosen our pockets:(
“Europe dominates the list of 71 cities compiled by Swiss bank UBS, while Asian cities [...]